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parts2clean Trade Show Will Reveal Parts Cleaning Trends
Often, cleaning technologies displayed at this annual show in Germany is a foreshadowing of what the U.S. market will eventually have available to it. Read about the trends predicted at this year’s parts2clean.
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Business Activity Contraction Quickens as Economic Shutdown Endures
April’s New Orders and Production Activity Collapse as Index Falls to All-Time Low.
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Measuring the Merit of Ceramic Cutters
In testing new ceramic microtools, a precision dynamometer ensures that cutting forces are measured precisely so tool performance parameters can be determined.
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The Right Solvent Creates the Cleanest Parts
Cox Manufacturing Co. has worked with Kyzen Corp. since it implemented its vacuum vapor degreaser to find just the right chemical solvent to clean its customers’ parts to their specifications and beyond.
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Data Enables Machines to Tell Their Own Stories
These examples reveal how a data collection system has minimized machine tool downtime and costs while simultaneously offering valuable insights into a shop’s processes.
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Bringing a Broaching Tool Manufacturer into the 21st Century
This broaching tool manufacturer had been making its products the same way since 1945, but a new owner updated everything, from the equipment to the culture and the way it does business.
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Part Cleanliness is Second Nature
While the general public has ramped up its concern about cleanliness, I can’t help but think about shops that have parts cleaning operations that are always concerned about cleaning.
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Will This CNC Machining Magazine Editor Choose Comfort or Change?
That’s the question I asked myself when presented with the opportunity to become this magazine’s next editor in chief. I chose change.
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Swiss Shop Turns Precision into Profit
The quality demands for micro-machined parts are swiftly increasing. Shops must be ready and willing to adjust their machining strategies to fit the need.
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Machine Tool Search Made Easy
Find out what turning equipment is available in the market by using TechSpex machine tools search engine.
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Foster Teams that Support Psychological Safety
The behaviors that create psychological safety — conversational turn-taking and empathy — are part of the same unwritten rules we often turn to, as individuals, when we need to establish a bond.
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3D Printing’s Value in a Production Turning Environment
A shop had a problem with chips and coolant being shot back through tube material it was machining on a bar-fed CNC turning center. Its solution was to 3D-print a plug to insert into the back end of the tubes. It uses its 3D printer in other ways, too.
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